October 1984
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Version 1.0
TAR(1)
Silicon Graphics
TAR(1)
m
tells
tar
not to restore the modification times. The modification
time will be the time of extraction.
e
Force
tar
to continue reading past tape errors.
h
Force
tar
to follow symbolic links as if they were normal files or
directories.
B
Forces input and output blocking to 20 blocks per record. This
option is so that
tar
can work across a communications channel
where the blocking may not be maintained.
R
When extracting from tape, ignore leading slashes on file names,
i.e. extract all files relative to the current directory.
U
For each file extracted. unlink existing file, if any.
o
Don’t
chown
(or
chgrp
) files.
q
Turn on debugging and extra error diagnostics. Supplying this
flag multiple times increases debugging level.
If a file name is preceded by -C, then
tar
will perform a
chdir
(2) to that file
name. This allows multiple directories not related by a close common parent
to be archived using short relative path names. For example, to archive files
from /usr/include and from /etc, one might use
tar c -C /usr include -C /etc
If a file name of
-
is given on the command line when making an archive
then
tar
will read its standard input for a list of files to back up, one per line;
the list is terminated by an EOF. For example, to back up all files that have
changed in the last week, one might use
find / -mtime -7 -print | tar -c -
FILES
/dev/rmt?
/tmp/tar*
DIAGNOSTICS
Complaints about bad key characters and tape read/write errors.
Complaints if enough memory is not available to hold the link tables.
BUGS
There is no way to ask for the
n
-th occurrence of a file.
Tape errors are handled ungracefully.
The
u
option can be slow.
File name length is limited to 100 characters.
The data for a file with multiple links is output to tape with the first link
encountered. Thus, an attempt to extract a subsequent link by itself will
not have the desired result.
The cartridge tape drive always reads and writes 512-byte records.
Summary of Contents for IRIS Workstation
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